Culture, Christianity, Catholic Dogma & The Death Of
The West

"A
woman shall not be clothed with man’s apparel,
neither shall a man use woman’s apparel: for he
that doth these things is abominable before
God." Deuteronomy 22:5
I
came across this and found it most interesting.
Written in 1960 by Giuseppe Cardinal Siri to the
women of Genoa, it contains many well reasoned
arguments as to why women should resist wearing men's
clothing which ultimately leads to the perversion and
obliteration of the God given roles of men and women.
Let us strive to embrace the differentiation between
man and women in a culture that is at war with the
very idea of gender.

To the Reverend Clergy,
To all Teaching sisters,
To the beloved sons of Catholic Action,
To Educators intending truly to follow Christian
Doctrine.

I
The first signs of our late arriving spring indicate
that there is this year a certain increase in the use
of men's dress by girls and women, even family
mothers. Up until 1959, in Genoa, such dress usually
meant the person was a tourist, but now it seems to
be a significant number of girls and women from Genoa
itself who are choosing at least on pleasure trips to
wear men's dress (men's trousers).
The extension of this behavior obliges us to take
serious thought, and we ask those to whom this
Notification is addressed to kindly lend to the
problem all the attention it deserves from anyone
aware of being in any way responsible before God.

We seek above all to give a balanced moral judgment
upon the wearing of men's dress by women. In fact Our
thoughts can only bear upon the moral question.

Firstly, when it comes to covering of the female
body, the wearing of men's trousers by women cannot
be said to constitute as such a grave offense against
modesty since trousers certainly cover more of
woman's body than do modern women's skirts.

Secondly, however, clothes to be modest need not only
to cover the body but also not to cling too closely
to the body. Now it is true that much feminine
clothing today clings closer than do some trousers,
but trousers can be made to cling closer, in fact
generally they do, so the tight fit of such clothing
gives us not less grounds for concern than does
exposure of the body. So the immodesty of men's
trousers on women is an aspect of the problem which
is not to be left out of an over-all judgment upon
them, even if it is not to be artificially
exaggerated either.

II
However, it is a different aspect of women's wearing
of men's trousers which seems to us the gravest.
The wearing of men's dress by women affects firstly
the woman herself, by changing the feminine
psychology proper to women; secondly it affects the
woman as wife of her husband, by tending to vitiate
relationships between the sexes; thirdly it affects
the woman as mother of her children by harming her
dignity in her children's eyes. Each of these points
is to be carefully considered in turn:--

A. MALE DRESS CHANGES THE PSYCHOLOGY OF WOMAN.
In truth, the motive impelling women to wear men's
dress is always that of imitating, nay, of competing
with, the man who is considered stronger, less tied
down, more independent. This motivation shows clearly
that male dress is the visible aid to bringing about
a mental attitude of being "like a man." Secondly,
ever since men have been men, the clothing a person
wears, demands, imposes and modifies that person's
gestures, attitudes and behavior, such that from
merely being worn outside, clothing comes to impose a
particular frame of mindRead
More...

"...if we look through Europe we shall find on the whole
that just those nations and countries have lost their faith
in the divinity of Christ, who have given up devotion to
His Mother..."
Card. Newman
Amazon.com Widgets

"Idolatry
is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also
by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or
alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of
spiritual corruption and cowardice."

G.K. Chesterton

________________

"No
one can be, at the same time, a sincere Catholic and a true
socialist."
Pope Pius XI

________

WHAT IS AGAINST TRUTH CANNOT BE JUST.
St Augustine

_________

"Whatever a man seeks, honors, or exalts more than God,
that is the god of his idolatry"
Archb. Ullathorne

__________

"Individual liberty, freed from all bonds and all laws, all
objective and social values, is in reality only a
death-dealing anarchy."
Pope Pius XIII

_________

"To understand how indispensable the Eucharist is to the
practice of Christian chastity is to understand the meaning
of Christianity. When Christ told us, "Without me, you can
do nothing," He meant this to be taken literally. Without
the constant help of His grace to enlighten our darkened
minds and strengthen our weak wills, all the moral precepts
of the New Testament are so much pious rhetoric or
religious jargon."
Fr John Hardon
_______________

"Accumulating knowledge is a form of avarice and lends
itself to another version of the Midas story ...man [is] so
avid for knowledge that everything that he touches turns to
facts; his faith becomes theology; his love becomes
lechery; his wisdom becomes science; pursuing meaning, he
ignores truth."
Malcolm Muggeridge

___________

"Now, tell me whether, when you enter church to hear Mass,
you thoroughly well consider that you are going up as it
were to Calvary, to be present at the death of the
Redeemer... Wickedness is hideous at any time, and in any
place; but sins committed during the time of Mass, and
before the altar, draw down after them the curse of God."
St. Leonard-Port Maurice

___________

"Paganism is as old as human history. In one sentence,
paganism is a culture of untruth."

Fr John Hardon S.J.

_____________

"That the State must be separated from the Church is a
thesis absolutely false, a most pernicious error."